10 Wordpress Plugins I Can't Live Without - What's Yours?

[Allissa]

I think one of the most important, that isn't on your list, is one of the many backup plugins.

Another is a security plugin, the way sites are getting hacked these days!

[Lakezilla]

I like these plugins as well:

KB Robots.txt
Facebook Social Plugin Widgets
Breadcrumb NavXT

[laracoates28]

Yoast SEO
SEO Facebook Comments
YARPP
Akismet

[SeoMarketLeaders]

Yoast is definately the best SEO plugin around. A huge help for tweaking pages perfectly.

blogvault.net Although its $10 a month if you have a important site, it will back it up daily.

[marketwarrior06]

Dude actually most of the marketers / web masters use most of these plugins
For me most of them are essential
thanks for sharing.

[nasuryono]

Sounds very similar to mine with the exception of BackWPUp.

Originally Posted by cferfland247

You have a big list of plugins but mine is Yoast SEO,Theme My Login, Akismit, Backwpup, Contact 7, Sexy Bookmarking ....

[IMAdam]

The top ones are all in one seo and the bulletproof security plugin.

Adam

[nasuryono]

A lot of people here seems to recommend Wordpress SEO by Yoast. You should check it out too!

Originally Posted by techbul

All In One SEO pack is the plugin that every wordpress website should have, hands down.

[milliondream]

My favorite WP plugins
1 All in one SEO
All in One SEO Pack. WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

2 Google Analyticator
Easy and fast

3 Simple Tags

4 Related Posts Thumbnails

5 SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2
Increasing the number of indexed pages, auto convert search terms into post tags

6 Share This
Share your wp for Social Network.

7 WP Page Numbers

8 WP Super Cache Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

[nasuryono]

Will look at the Facebook Traffic pop

Originally Posted by emmanueljcmarquez

Seo plugin by yoast hehehe facebook traffic pop also

[nasuryono]

Try Quick Cache instead of W3 Total Cache. I switched over to Quick Cache because it's a lot lighter in memory.

Originally Posted by Rich Roberts

These are my favorites W3 Total Cache ,Gravity Forms, and 5.WP-DBManager. I use a lot more than these but these I can’t do without.

[rich8169]

My top 10 WP Plugins:

http://someplus.com/2012/09/my-top-1...lugins-slides/

Cheers!

[lindseyc]

all in 1 seo is what i start out with. but ur list is helpful.

[nasuryono]

Thanks for sharing with us! Will look at the Widget Logic plugins.

Originally Posted by jazbo

Yoast SEO
XML sitemaps
YAARP
Widget Logic
Super Cache
Gravity Forms
Akismet

[Devtard]

I surely cannot live without my plugin Automatic Post Tagger that saves me a lot of time because as the name suggest it assigns user-defined tags to posts. No need to do this boring job manually if you have this plugin.

[samjaynz]

ExtendAZON is a pretty primo plugin (even though it sounds like the name of the kind of "male enhancement" products you get advertised in junk mail)

I love getting those extended Amazon commissions, especially when someone checks out a cheap widget through my link, then comes back and purchases something far more expensive.

[Dele]

Essential Wordpress Plugins
Great Wordpress Plugins

[GuruJu]

My essential WP plugins:

Contact Form 7
Google Sitemap Generator
Limit Login Attempts
Really Simple Captcha
Wordpress Firewall
Link Juice Keeper
All-in-One SEO

[turnkeybiz]

Hmm Ok here is mine


Duplicate Post - Great for making sale pages

EZ Price Tables - need tables

Gravity Forms - great feed back forms and use them for my domains when people make offers for them

Member's Dashboard - Great and easy way to make a members area that looks professional. recently set it up in our community

NextGEN Gallery - The best gallery around

Optimized Dropdown Menus - Sometimes You Just have to Many pages you want to list in a menu and a drop down box is neater

s2Member - its free and its a very good members plugin

WPiFramer - Great tool to add affiliate pages to your own and making it seem like your website. They just need to add a feature to back up the links

WP Max Pay - Handy tool just picked up from a WSO. let's the customer pick what they want to pay for an item. a very unique idea

Buddypress - free way to create a community

[WebmasterWorkforce]

Great thread! I found a number of new plugins here.

[Prof1tSn1per]

My bests:
WP Super Cache
Wordpress SEO ( by Yoast )
Google Analytics for WP
GD Press Tools
BWP Google XML Sitemaps
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget

[AnalyticsNerd]

Yoast SEO, W3 Total Cache and also the Pretty link pro plugin (WordPress › Pretty Link Lite « WordPress Plugins) are my personal favorites.

If you setup up your Pretty Link Pro properly and combine it with a Google Analytics affiliate dashboard from DashboardJunkie.com then you are definitely off to something good

[frisbee5]

Is there some way to connect a form on the wp landing page to a wp ecommerce plug in?

[pat3ck]

Yoast SEO, WP Super Cache, SEO Smart Links, just to name some.

[englishpremier]

I haven't seen Maintenance by Robert Wetzlmayr listed yet.

It throw up a 503 status, so you can take down, edit your site without the fear that your temporary content is going to get indexed.

[kbrockm]

Originally Posted by mohairan

I need a plugin for auto linking the words if any one know help me

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I use one called SEO SmartLinks. You set up keyword, and it will find them in posts or pages (you choose) and tell them what to link to, in your site or outside of it. Great for adding affiliate links automatically.

[tyronne78]

Page Links To by Mark Jaquith - opens up a page on your blog to an external site/lead capture page
Thank Me Later - sends a thank you message to your commenters
WP Policies - creates a privacy policy,earnings disclaimer,etc...
Broken Link Checker - checks for broken links on your site (external links to 404 error pages,etc)

[nasuryono]

Ah, the Famous Daniel Tan himself defending his SEOPressor

Will definitely check the new version Daniel. Thanks for the notice.

[roblawrence]

My favorites are:

WP Emember Membership Plugin
Limit Login Attempts
Really Simple Captcha
Yoast SEO
After The Deadline
Wordpress.com Jetpack

I'll also put a vote in for WP Engine optimized Wordpress hosting. I know it's not a plugin, but I couldn't run my site without it. They replace about a dozen miscellaneous plugins, most notably the caching plugins which are redundant with their service. They also have automatic backup and site restore points, so that replaces plugins like Backup Buddy or VaultPress.

[magiclouie]

I can't live without RAW HTML and all-in-one-seo-pack plugin.

[sparkah]

REGEX.

You can "find and replace" links and anchor text in ALL your posts in your whole blog.

[roblawrence]

Originally Posted by sparkah

REGEX.

You can "find and replace" links and anchor text in ALL your posts in your whole blog.

That sounds powerful. I'll have to check it out. Will save me hours of time, I was doing this by hand.

[Sue McDonald]

Two of my favorites are Shareaholic - Shareaholic adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts and Wordfence Security- Wordfence Security - Anti-virus and Firewall security plugin for WordPress.

[sabatek]

Seopressor

[run]

No particular order:

Ad Injection - Easily put ads codes!

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - Interact visitors to increase page views!

W3 Total Cache - Increase site performance!

WordPress SEO by Yoast - Increase SE visibility!

Pretty Link Lite - Cloak ugly afilliate with a pretty one!

Google Analytics for WordPress - Easily add GA codes!

SEO Friendly Images - Add alt tags to each images to increase on page SEO!

WP-PageNavi - Grant numeric value to the post navigation!

Subscribe to Comments - Commenters notified having reply to get them come back again!

Shareaholic | email, bookmark, share buttons - Add more taste with social engagement by the fancy social sharing buttons!

AdSense Privacy Policy - Easily generate up to date Adsense compliance Privacy Policy contents!

Contact Form 7 - Easy to set up & add fancy forms on Contact page!

Limit Login Attempts - Limit the bad guys from guessing the login credentials and login multiple times!

WordPress File Monitor Plus - Get notify when unknown activity changes in Wordpress back-end files and folders!

Login Security Solution - Prevent brute force attacks and dictionary attacks and more.

WP Login Security 2 - Login could be possible only to the white listed IPs. Get notified when unknown IPs try to login to Emails.

Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions - Clean database from unused datas such as post revision, trash, and ... etc.

[pradeepkolanu]

i Really like the WP Retina 2X for making the images a retina display clarity.

[IMBlessed]

Seopressor for me

[Auctiondebteliminator]

S2member
Jetpack
Blog in a blog
Quick Cache
Digg Digg
Metadata
Wp-Copy protect
Aweber

[Abramm]

some of my favorite:
Print Friendly and PDF
MobilePress
Simple Video Embedder
All in One SEO Pack
Bit.ly Service
Blog Protector
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Google+ Plugin
Google Analyticator
Maintenance Mode


Regenerate Thumbnails
SexyBookmarks

[troy23]

I don't think 'all in one seo' is necessary.
My posts get indexed instantly with or without it

[ownergolan]

Zemanta is awesome !

[evolutionleads]

Great plugins, mostly everything I use has been mentioned.

I do a lot of local business marketing and I like Disable Skype Highlighting Phone Numbers. Basically I like the numbers to stay as text and not shrink into a skype format when a user has there Skype add-on enabled.

[Abhik]

W3 Total Cache is is my first choice of plugins, then comes WordPress SEO and Google XML Sitemap.

[CindyPink]

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin (GASP)/Akismet
Broke Link Checker
WP-DBManager
Google XML Sitemaps
WPTouch
Instapress
nrelate Related Content
TwitterLink Comments
ReplyMe
Commentluv

And there you have it: 10 WordPress Plugins I can't live without.

[Simon74]

All you listed plus the following:

seo friendly images
wordpress seo
wp-copyprotect

[InternetBusinessKickStart]

WP Super Popup (the free version is good enough). Will rapidly increase your opt-ins dramatically!

[Shanna Carson]

I love the plugin "What Would Seth Godin Do" and I use it to display messages on top of my posts.

[Pete Lauder]

From my plugins site, they are all free plugins.

Ultimate Tiny MCE, replacing the Wordpress visual editor

Wordpress SEO by Yoast, the standard SEO plugin

Bulletproof Security, does what it says on the tin

Wordfence another great security plugin that looks for malicious code, and changes

Wysija, what you see is just amazing, email and autoresponder tool

I also like UpdraftPlus, a good backup tool.

Most others are on a needs basis, which varies for each site.

[Lilach]

I'm a huge fan of WordPress and love their plugins. I recently wrote my favourite 101 WordPress Plugins for 2013 - you can read it here

[PeterKnight]

Apart from my own plugins, I usually end up installing these on most WP sites

Duplicator for backup/migration has saved me a lot of time and it's free
Spam Destroyer is actually really good for keeping out spam comments
Types & Views or Pods for creating custom content types and templating
Woocommerce for selling products & services
Front-end Editor let's you make live edits to your content
After the deadline for proofreading